Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

SOLOMON PAGE MILLER

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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A West Virginian who has more than �made good� in California is Solomon Page 
Miller, prominent among the progressive ranchers in the Cranmore district.  He 
was born about three miles from Martinsburg on September 13, 1859, the son of 
Washington and Elizabeth (Davis) Miller, the former a native of West Virginia, 
while the latter was born in the Old Dominion.  Washington Miller was a farmer 
in West Virginia, and passed away at the age of eighty-seven, leaving an 
honorable record and an honored name.  Eight children were granted to Mr. and 
Mrs. Miller; and our subject was the fourth in the order of birth.
Solomon P. Miller attended the public schools in his native district and 
remained at home, assisting his father on the home ranch, until he was 
twenty-five years old.  Then, having decided to strike out for himself, he came 
out to California and settled at Grand Island, on the Morton Miller ranch.  At 
first he worked for wages; but eight years ago he bought the Hoffman ranch in 
the Cranmore district, comprising eighty acres devoted to general farming and to 
the raising of hogs and cattle.  In addition, Mr. Miller has been successfully 
operating 250 acres adjoining.
In August, 1880, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Ada Kretzer, a native of 
Maryland, and a charming, accomplished woman, by whom he had a family of three 
children: Brook, who lives at Grimes; Marie, now Mrs. Poffenberger; and Hazel, 
who is Mrs. Irwin Wilder.  Mr. Miller�s second wife was Mrs. Ed. Hart, a widow, 
and a popular and gifted favorite in her social set.  Fraternally, Mr. Miller is 
an Odd Fellow.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 659